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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Pity the ‘democrats’ of Turkey

Pity the ‘democrats’ of Turkey

I always thought that supporting the demands for freedom from Turkey’s Islamists and standing up against the rigid regime of secularism was the right thing to do. This regime tried to resist even after the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power with a majority of the votes in 2002 – that’s why it was the right thing to stand by the AKP, against all sorts of intrusions, military as well as civilian ones.

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